Will The Swiss Vote To Get Their Gold Back?
On November 30th, voters in Switzerland will head to the polls to vote in a referendum on gold. On the ballot is a measure to prohibit the Swiss National Bank (SNB) from further gold sales, to repatriate Swiss-owned gold to Switzerland, and to mandate that ...
Julius Baer injects intrigue into M&A talks
Merger rumours have circled Credit Suisse and Julius Baer since late August when a Swiss finance blog alluded to high-level discussions between the two groups, Switzerland’s second and fourth-largest wealth managers by assets, respectively. When asked ...
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Holiday was nice, good to see some Switzerland and travelled through Alps on a train, Venice good, Florence good. Enough of that, now I ramble about the Medici and my strange disillusionment. See, I studied Renaissance Florence as part of my degree. Florence itself is beautiful (though when we were ...